Amor Sciendi
Madonna with the Long Neck
This strange and clever painting by Parmigianino asks a lot of questions. It deals with art inside a greater context and how how the story of art can often be self-referential.
Amor Sciendi
Durer's Melencolia I: How Math and Art can heal
This video includes guided notes and an essay analysis activity. Durer's famous print "Melencolia I" is more than a art. It's a talisman to help bring the four humours of your body back into balance... or at least that's according to a...
Schooling Online Kids
Arts and Crafts: How To Make A Noodle Paint Brush
Hi friends! Bella Bloom loves to make paint brushes out of different materials. I wonder what materials she could find in the kitchen? How about…Pasta! Today, Bella is using her creativity to paint a beautiful artwork using a scratchy...
Easy Languages
Easy Hungarian 10 - Favourite day
Learn Hungarian with Easy Hungarian! In this episode Nóra and Gábor ask people about their favourite day of the week.
Curated Video
Overview of the Disasters of War Series by Francisco Goya
Francisco Goya's series of aquatint prints, The Disasters of War are hard to look at. Rather than focus on the bombastics of usual war art, he depicts the suffering of regular people - the starving, assaults, executions. He does not...
Orkidbox
White Nights Watercolour Palette
St. Petersburg White Nights are really popular for a reason. They are great value and because of that it makes them less daunting for many who are new to watercolour. I do a quick sketch and some colour mixing to test them out. MATERIALS...
Curated Video
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper: Great Art Explained
Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on earth, it is still possible to feel entirely alone. This...
Curated Video
Great Art Cities Explained: London
In the first of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they look at less well known museums in cities around the world. In "Great Art Cities Explained: London", we look at three museums...
Curated Video
The Thinker by Rodin: Great Art Explained
The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the nature of man and his place in the world. For some it is a symbol of knowledge, others philosophy, even existence...
Curated Video
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Two): Great Art Explained
In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible. There is no mention of Hell...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Marbled Paper From Shaving Cream And Food Coloring
Marbleize paper with me us! We use shaving cream and food coloring to create amazing papers in this video.
Amor Sciendi
The Crystal Palace: The story of a great building
The Crystal Palace: The story of a great building
Music Matters
Handel’s Word Painting Brilliance - Composer Insights
A detailed look through the opening of the first Chorus movement in Handel’s “Messiah”. In particular word painting is explored, namely how Handel paints the text “And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed”. Choice of key and tempo are...
Poetry Foundation
Aviya Kushner reads “The First Time”
Aviya Kushner reads her poem, “The First Time”.
Curated Video
The Birth of Venus by Botticelli: Great Art Explained:
Sandro Botticelli’s poetic sense of beauty captivated the Florentine court. But it was his subject matter which distinguished him from other artists. He was one of the first western artist since classical times to depict non-religious...
Curated Video
The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault: Great Art Explained
This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an age of slavery. In its brutality,...
Curated Video
Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi: Great Art Explained
Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an...
Curated Video
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Three): Great Art Explained
The painting was just too complex and detailed to deal with in fifteen minutes, so I made it in three parts. There are no records to tell us what Bosch or his contemporaries were thinking. There are so many theories out there, some more...
Curated Video
La Leocadia, Francisco Goya's Mistress
La Leocadia, also known as The Seductress, is likely one of Goya's last paintings. It is painted on a light background, unlike the dark background of the rest of the Black Paintings. The woman in the painting bears a striking resemblance...
Orkidbox
A Look at Some Large Watercolour Brushes
I got some new watercolour brushes recently. They are specifically for doing larger washes and applications of paint. I am going to try out the variety in this video from thick to thin, stiff to soft and rounded to flat. Brushes 3/4”...
Curated Video
Venice Special (Biennale): Great Art Cities Explained:
In the third of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they travel to Venice for the world’s oldest and greatest art exhibition, the Venice Biennale. The 59th International Venice Biennale...
Curated Video
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck: Great Art Explained
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was painted in 1434. It has been dissected and analysed, maybe more than any other painting in history, and in the process, become even more mysterious....
Curated Video
Mona Lisa del Giocondo
In 1550, art historian Giorgio Vasari noted in his book on Renaissance artwork that, "Leonardo undertook to execute, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife." But there was dispute about Mona Lisa's true identity...
Curated Video
Theories Behind Francisco Goya's Black Paintings
The Black Paintings (Las pinturas negras) are often considered to deptic insanity and Goya's own struggles after losing his hearing. But is that an accurate understanding of these paintings? What is the context of the The Black...